4th of July Park Day

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July! I'm finally getting this up a day late since I was completely worn out after all of the activites of the park day. There wasn't quite as many people there as we sometimes have so some of us got a little extra exercise, and unfortunately I'm still feeling it a bit. I guess it's a sign I'm getting old...

But enough of an introduction I'm sure you're more interested in seeing pictures than hearing me ramble.

The pastor (my dad) pitched the entire game again for both teams!

Sometimes I wonder how he does it.

Here's Aaron putting a charge into one, I'm not sure if that's the one that ended up over the fence or not.

Here's the other team, watching as someone bats.

Jonathan must have really gotten a hold of that one!

Justin putting one into play.

These next two were "borrowed" (sorry) without asking,

though it's kind of hard to ask after 10:30 at night.

Here's Steven really laying into one!

Here's me, probably popping it up to Andrew out in left field. He seemed to be catching everything out there!

After softball was over a couple of us went to play volleyball.

Here's me getting ready to set one for Aaron.

Here's me again serving one. (I never realized how awkward I look when I do that!)

Ok, I'm either getting ready to hit the ball or I'm trying to keep the sun out of my eyes. Considering that I'm wearing sunglasses it's probably the former.

Jonathan looks like he's getting ready to crush the ball, while I get ready to attempt a block.

Please tell me he's not higher than me!

Jonathan and I getting ready to receive the serve.

Aaron attempting to hit over Jonathan's block.

Jonathan really got some air on that serve!

And Jonathan pounds another one!

If you saw the last picture on Andrew's blog post, this is the other side!

Unfortunately there wasn't much else to do, but the girls didn't seem to mind too much.

And they actually did get to play in a game after all!

After all that excitement I was pretty exhausted, and I look it too.

But overall it was a very fun day, and I'm glad I was able to make it instead of spending the day in the hospital like on Memorial Day. If you enjoyed reading this please feel free to leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping by!

Beach Volleyball & Brass Practice

There's nothing quite like a nice sunny day at the beach,

perfect weather for beach volleyball!

Once my feet couldn't take anymore of the heat from the sand I took some pictures from the side. Here's me with the Huntington Beach pier in the background.

And here's just a few of the better shots from the game:

A few shots of Aaron...

And here's a few of Jonathan...

After we left the beach we went back to the church so Aaron and Jonathan could practice their prelude for tomorrow with Lisa.

I had to turn pages so I didn't get any pictures of them actually playing.

Not really anything too exciting in this post, hopefully next time I'll have something worth reading.

Thanks for stopping by!

Starting a blog and back from vacation

It's now been almost a week since I got back from vacation and somehow I got the idea of starting a blog. Hope you enjoy it!

Here is shot of the four brothers back in Tennesee at the reunion.

(I'm the tall skinny one on the right)

We had a good vacation back in Tennessee and we got to meet some relatives that I'd never met before as well as see some I hadn't seen for quite a while.

Here's a picture of all of the younger cousins, seems like someone was always looking away from the camera.

We also got to see lots of wildlife...

These are just two pictures of the one deer I got to see, my dad said he saw about thirty the whole time we were there. (Too bad he didn't have a camera)

And of course no trip to Tennessee would be complete without a round or two of Golf!

That's me in the shadows getting ready to tee off on the first hole.

Here's me again teeing off on my first ever water hole!

(Thankfully I missed the water!)

Well, I just spent the evening figuring out how to build a blog and post to it and I missed my horn practice for the second night in a row :( , Thankfully I'm not playing for anything anytime soon so I have lots of time to get back with it. Hopefully this wasn't too bad for a first blog post, I'll try to post again as soon as I have something worth posting.